Live: Winter Gardens, Margate, Kent
Så var det åter dags för fredagsmys – för publiken. Detta var den femte av sex på varandra följande spelkvällar för The Beatles på Margate’s Winter Gardens med som vanligt två föreställningar.
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UK EP release: Twist And Shout
Denna dag släpptes The Beatles debut-EP som innehöll fyra låtar från gruppens första album Please Please Me.
Första sidan innehöll låtarna Twist And Shout och A Taste Of Honey och andra sidan innehöll Do You Want To Know A Secret och There’s A Place.
EP:n Twist And Shout gick in på EP-listan den 20 juli 1963. Den nådde givetvis förstaplatsen, där den låg kvar i hela 21 veckor! Totalt var den kvar på listan i över ett år – hela 64 veckor.
Trots att samtliga låtar på EP:n var med på albumet Please Please Me sålde EP:n ändå mer än 800 000 exemplar!
Parlophone-EP:n fick skivnummer GEP 8882. Omslagsfotot (se ovan) togs av Fiona Adams och texten på omslaget skrevs av Tony Barrow, vilken lyder som följer:
Each of the four titles here has been clipped away from the Beatles’ No. 1 LP Please Please Me which has been at the top of the nation’s album charts for umpteen weeks as this sleeve goes to press. It is equally true that one of the songs – Do You Want To Know A Secret – became a No. 1 hit as a single when it was recorded for Parlophone by the Beatles’ Liverpoplian colleague, Billy J. Kramer.
The items lined up on this EP have been designed to pass the audio spotlight very fairly from Beatle to Beatle, exposing four contrasting facets of the quartet’s vocal and instrumental ingenuity. At one end of the scale we have the all-action, all-raving rocker, Twist And Shout. No wonder this has become a show-stopping highspot of the foursome’s stage act! John must have built himself a set of leather tonsils in a throat of steel to turn out such a violently exciting track!
The tension eases off with the second number on Side One: Paul McCartney’s slightly sad, slightly nostalgic version of A Taste Of Honey. The tune began as a memorable jazz instrumental; Paul’s clear, sturdy voice turns it into a haunting piece of atmosphere balladeering.
The second half opens with George Harrison stepping forward to chant the persuasive ballad Do You Want To Know A Secret. Penned by John and Paul, this must be one of the year’s most catrchy pop hits, and George tempers his vocal delivery with an intruiguing blend of warmth and wistfulness.
For the finale John and Paul join forces to handle their own self-penned composition, There’s A Place. With a fair amount of Ringo’s percussive pressure behind their voices they offer a part-plaintive, part punchy performance of this infectious beat number. Whatever time of the year you find yourself reading these paragraphs it’s a pretty safe bet that The Beatles won’t be far from the No. 1 chart spot. And with a little luck they’ll be No. 1 on the bill at your local theatre too!
NOT. Fiona Adams gick bort den 26 juni 2020 i en ålder av 84 år. Se och läs mer om Fiona Adams i vår artikel daterad den 18 april 2020 på vår hemsida.